Exploring All of Tokyo in One Day | The Ultimate Tour!

Exploring All of Tokyo in One Day | The Ultimate Tour!

Hey y’all. We’re doing something very special today. So, we are taking a private tour around Tokyo to go see some of the highlights. So, if you only have 24 hours in Tokyo, this is the tour I recommend and we’re going to make it really quick because we have our own private car and we have our own private tour guide. Hi. Hello. This is Shaw from Matka Trip. Today, I’m going to take uh her around Tokyo by this private vehicle and uh I’m going to make her day today. Yay. And the trains are great in Tokyo, but if you have an option, car, private car, 100% the way to go. So, let’s go. Hey y’all. So, we are in our fancy car. And even though I sometimes ride in cars in Japan, like rental cars, this one’s way nicer than I’m used to. So, it’s really nice having the assist around. If you can rent a car in Tokyo, I recommend it because it’s a great way to actually see the city above ground cuz half the trains are actually underground and the view is not that exciting at all. So, it’s actually really nice to get to see the city streets from the streets. And right now, we are going to So, our first stop on the tour is Fish Market and we are going to get some lunch and my tour guide Shaw is telling me that he’s treating us to some Wagyu for lunch. So, if you don’t know, Wagyu is like the premium nice beef and something I also don’t eat on my own very often. So, I’m very excited for that. So, we are in our first stop, which is Fish Market. Now, if you’re up to date on your local Japanese history, you’ll know that the actual fish market got moved to Toyosu. Yes. So, right now it’s a bunch of street food and it’s still a really cool area. Actually, this is my first time being here despite living in Tokyo for 4 years. I know Show is very disappointed with me. And we’re going to get some breakfast here. Okay. Show waited in line for us and got us our delicious. So, this one is egg omelets and with a lot of super stock in it, like dashi in it and a little like sugar. So, it’s little bit sweet in it. And also, they use a yum cake. So, this one is super fluffy. You should definitely try this. Only 200 yen. And it was pretty fast, too. You only Yeah, like it looks like, you know, line up forever, but only 10 minutes or something. So, definitely line up. And it’s worth it for sure. Okay. Oh my gosh, it’s so sweet. You can really taste exactly what he said, dashi, which is a common like fish shop they use in a lot of different Japanese foods. And it’s also a little sweet, too. And really fluffy. Look, it’s actually kind of like a breakfast food. Is that why you picked it on purpose? Cuz it’s actually eggs. Much better than natto. Comfort. Comfort. Food. Comfort. Comfort food. [Music] Joe was just telling me too, it’s a good thing to have a tour guide cuz if you notice, there are a lot of tourists in these places. And where there are tourists, there are places of tourists. That’s a good reason to have a tour guide cuz he can show you where actually the locals would actually buy things from. Exactly. That’s why you need me. Him in particular. Where are we going to next? We are going to take you to the grilled tuna skewer place. Grilled tuna skewer. So, he’s saying we have two more stops and this is our breakfast. So, you better come hungry because I’m already pretty full. Really? Also, today my lovely friend Alex has accompanied me. And our next thing, grilled uh tuna skewers. So, if you don’t like raw fish, they grill this and they sear it. Alex here is in this shot with me because she doesn’t eat seafood at all, but she’s going to be a good sport and try some. So, your first seafood. Wait, I’m drunk. Yeah. Oh, no. I know. I like it. So, you’re just saying that for the camera. What do you think? It’s edible. Okay. Okay. I love seafood. So, let me try it and see if I can do better than edible. That is way better than edible. Oh my god, it’s really good. I love like seared fish, seared tuna with the wasabi, too, and some showyu, which is soy sauce in Japanese. Ranking so far, I prefer this one over the egg combo. This is also super common in breakfast for breakfast in Japan. So, I feel right at home eating this. Well, not surprisingly, I prefer the eggpl. Okay, well, the last one will be a tiebreaker. We’ll just see. Okay, well, we built up to it. The real thing, nigiri sushi. At this place, you can get a flight of sushi. So you have like the lean, medium fat, and then the most fatty. If you can guess, the most fatty is my favorite one. I mean, as an American. Soy sauce. Oh, yeah. Of course. Soy sauce. Wasabi. And wasabi. Okay. Which one should I start with? Work my way up. Nah, just go straight for the best one. That was really good. If you want to try like proper like chanto, like proper sushi, this is really good. This is probably the place to do it. Better than sushi though. Better than conveyor belt sushi. I’ll give it that. [Music] Guys, guess what our next stop is? Huge hint. Tokyo Tower. Tokyo Tower. Here’s actually fun fact. I act like I go around Tokyo and I know what I’m doing. But I’ve actually never been up or this close to Tokyo Tower before. Really? I know. It turns out I haven’t done anything that I thought I’ve done. But uh we’re excited. I’m going up. Show’s a little nervous cuz he’s actually kind of scared of heights. Oh yeah. But he’s making the sacrifice for us. I love heights. I love jumping off things and bungee jumping. So, I’m really excited. I love observation decks. And this was obviously built or modeled after the Eiffel Tower, which I’ve been up to. So, I’m excited to compare the view. Probably pretty different in Tokyo than in Paris. And show was just telling me, um, do you want to talk about the construction back? Uh, so this Tokyo Tower, Kurosaki case, it’s a Kosaki construction. So, built this Tokyo Tower only for 1 year and a half. Wow. It took only one year and a half. They built the entire thing. Wow. And uh you know Kosaki kids it’s a construction didn’t use any safety and a no lifeline and there was kind of crazy. Yeah. How was that legal at that time? Yes. At that time what what year what year was it? It’s uh 19645. Oh wow. So 1964 you didn’t need any safety rules to build a building. I’m glad that’s changed. All right let’s go up. I’m excited. Yes. So Alex just asked a great follow-up question. She was like did anyone die during the one and a half years? One person. One person fell from 60 meters up. So [Music] 1958. Okay. 1958. 1958. Sorry, I said 1964 was the Tokyo Olympics. Sorry. And it was built kind of for the Tokyo. Yeah. So, there’s two decks on Tokyo Tower. This is the first one, which is 150 m up. So, it’s pretty not that far from the ground. I feel like I could survive that fall should I fall. But, you can get good detail and see a lot of the buildings. There’s a cemetery down there, which, you know, it’s a little ominous for me thinking I could survive the fall, but it’s nice to see the buildings in detail. And then there’s a deck up at the top, which is higher than 150 mters, I’m told. and that can give you a more view of the area outside of Tokyo. So, let’s do that now. Okay, we’re in the waiting room. We took a picture and they also have a little free sample. This is um it’s grape juice. Let’s try some. It’s It’s not 12:00 p.m. yet, so it’s grape juice. Oh my god, it’s red wine. I had no idea. My bad. It’s tasty. All right. Oh yeah. I mean, if I had known, I would have waited till, you know, noon. But it’s nice. We get a little drink while enjoying the view. Waiting to go up to the very top floor of the tower. How How’s the wine out? It’s better than cider wine. Better than $1 wine from a family restaurant. Well, that’s better review than you gave the macarel or the tuna. So, check it out. This is our cute little picture that we took. It comes in a little frame pop up. And we have a little news stand, too. It also comes with a JPEG, so you can get the digital copy, too, because in this day and age, I know everyone needs the digital copy as well. But look how cute that is. Okay, I teased it at the beginning of the video. It is lunchtime and we have come to a Wagyu um restaurant. So, show was telling me that actually in Japan there’s something called a Wagyu Olympics. I think they host it down is it like in Kyushu or something like that? Kyushu Kagoshima. Kagoshima. And then they rate the different like cows that become the Wagyu beef. And this place apparently won first place three years in a row for balance in the balance category. Not as prestigious as the gymnastics category, I hear, but still pretty good. And in this place, I sat down and immediately you have a rock salt. And a lot of times when you do yaki niku, you dip it in different sauces, but apparently, you know, rau, you’re supposed to just eat it as is because the quality is so good. So, we’re very excited to try that. And yeah, they did all the ordering for us. That’s one of the nicest things, honestly, about having a guide handle all the logistics. Usually, when I’m showing people around, I have to do that, but it’s been really nice. They’re able to like order everything for us. In Japanese, that is admittedly probably a little better than mine. So that was much appreciated. Just a little bit. Just only a little bit better. Give me Give me a little bit more time and I’ll get there. Okay. Well, the food is here. And you can actually get the Wagyu in a several different styles. So they have just like the yaki niku style which is you just put the wagyu on like the grill in front of us here. Um two of us got that. I got the beautiful what is it called again? Hitsumabushi. And it’s more like a gudon type of meatball. And then you pour like dashi over it. And then we also have a katsu. And katsu of course is like usually breaded. Like the most common is tonkatu which is like fried pork. You probably heard of that. But this is wagyu katsu. So you can try a lot of different types of wagyu which is very very exciting. Okay. I’ve been instructed on how to eat this. So take a slice first and then I can drip it over my beautiful salt rock. I don’t know. It doesn’t feel right. and add a little bit of wasabi koshi. Then eat. Oh my gosh, it’s so good. It’s so balanced. Just like it won first place for. Believe the hype. Okay, so something I didn’t mention earlier, we were just talking and when I first came to Japan, I actually did um the magical trip tour, but I didn’t do the all day tour. I did a bar hopping tour in Shibuya instead. And so like magical trip offers a couple different tours, right? Oh yes. So we offer many tours from Hokkaido to Okinawa and mainly major cities such as Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nada, Kyoto, Osaka and like she mentioned a b hopping tour and a foodie tour and also cooking class and a small tour. Yeah. And a cycling tours and also private hire tour a higher car tour like this. Oh wow. So you do this and then you you said you were saying you show them and film them on your YouTube channel which you have. Yes. Like my channel is show me Japan. Show cuz his name show. Check it out guys. Check out his YouTube channel. He mostly, you were telling me you mostly do the drinking tour in Shuya. That’s your favorite in Shinjuku. And my channel is like more like, you know, of course I’m going to tell I’m telling you got tipping like culture while drinking. So it’s true. I did it I did their bar hopping tour in Shibuy almost the same one uh he does and I’m so glad I did it like the first day I was here in Japan. And I learned a lot about where you should go in Tokyo, what what you should and shouldn’t do, like he said, tips for like how to behave at different izakayas and stuff like that. So, I highly recommend it. It was one of the most fun times I had on my first ever trip to Japan. Check them out, guys. Please check my channel. Thank you. Okay, so our next stop, we are in Akihabara, which of course is known for its anime and electronics. A lot of people know that today it’s not the same as it was when it first started. And show here has taken us to this really interesting alleyway. Show, you want to explain what we’re looking at? So, this is a place that we used to be black market after World War II. Those place sells a radio part. So people came here and they make their own radio to get information after World War II. And time goes by those kind of place sells a laptop and figuring that’s where the Akihabara starts. So it’s like Akihabara on its heyday when it became really famous. This is the black market selling electronic parts. That’s kind of what it’s now. It’s more known for like anime and made cafes and stuff, right? So still cool, but it’s cool to see this alleyway as it used to be. So let’s check it out. This is the kind of shop he was talking about. So, they have all sorts of transistors and things you can use to build your own electronic shops. So, you can still buy stuff like that here, which is pretty neat. Maybe I’ll build my own radio or something. So, do you guys know what this is? This might be a little more confusing. When I taught English, um, every one of my Japanese students that was older had one of these. It’s a translator. So, it’s a little dictionary so they can type in the word and get the translation. And even though I taught English like pretty recently and everyone has their iPhones, they still love to carry these and use these instead of just like, you know, Google Translate or probably now chat GBT. So, welcome y’all to Super Potato. I actually came here my first ever trip to Japan and this is a really really cool retro game store. So, if you’re a person of experience like me, you’ll probably remember and recognize a lot of these games uh from your childhood. Like these are N64 games. Sad fact about me, I actually never had an N64 growing up, which is really sad. So, I would always go to my friend’s house and play like Pokémon Colosseum and Mario 64, but I never owned one. So, these don’t hit the same for me. Oh, but look, Pokémon Colosseum for the very, very cheap price of 2,48 yen if you still own an N64. Or you have retro games. So, I’m actually not experienced enough that I was, you know, playing these as a kid. So, it’s kind of fun to come here and play these. Anyways, they don’t have the original Mario Brothers game, which is too bad cuz I did actually own an NES or my dad did. So, that’s the only one I think I’d have a shot at. Um, but still, it’s pretty cool. Okay, show is going to try. What? What is this game? This is a super retro game. I don’t know what it is actually, but uh you have to get over 300 points. And I think this one like a 5 10. You better have like a 10 points like here and over here, I guess. Okay. Well, let’s let’s find out. Game is start. Oh, you were so close. So, you just lose this. I lose it. I lost. Good. Good try. Good try. So, we’ve come to a figurine shop, which is, you know, one of the main things you come to Akihabara for. And I’m always like, you know, I wouldn’t mind like a figurine cuz, you know, I like anime. But then you see the prices on some of these. This Itachi figurine. I like Itachi. Then you look at the price and it’s like, oh, it’s $300. Do I like Itachi $300 much? No. I’m sorry, Itachi. And then I just always decide not to buy one. Okay, actually this one’s pretty reasonably priced. This is only like $23 or so. And it’s a little Freden figurine and it’s when she gets her hair exploded after going and searching for a treasure chest. If you know what I’m talking about, you know if you don’t watch the show. But I think I’m actually going to get it. I’m super excited. I’ve always wanted a fiden merch of any kind. So, you have to fill out this little piece of paper and then bring it to a staff. Check it out, guys. I’m so so excited. My very first figurine ever. It’s Freeden. She’s so cute. And it was pretty reasonably priced, which I was very happy about as well. Guys, good news, it’s raining. Bad news, we have umbrellas, so we can’t walk in the rain. But we are here at Maji Jingu Shrine, and this is a must do. Pretty popular spot um for firsttime people coming to Japan. It’s actually right beside a Yogi Park. And the cool thing about this is, you can’t tell, but we’re actually in the middle of downtown Harajuku. And then just randomly there’s this shrine in this forested area that feels completely different. So we’re going to show you and head there now. Let’s go. Pop quiz. Do you guys know the difference between a shrine and a temple? Shrine has to do with the Japanese Shinto religion and temple is Buddhism. So basically different religion, different name for the building. Kind of like a church being all Christian and whatnot. [Music] I will say I’ve actually never been to Maji Jingu in the rain. A lot less people. I feel like the trick to going to temples is pick a time where it’s raining. Um I also went to Kumida in Kyoto once and that’s infamously one of the most crowded temples, but I went in the rain in February and it was like deserted. And this is probably the most empty I’ve ever seen it too. So if you don’t mind a little rain, bring an umbrella. Maybe you should check out some temples in the rain. I think it’s a perfect. All right, guys. We are ending our journey at the very famous Shibuya scramble crossing. So, it’s a good end point. You can check out things around Shibuya if you haven’t already. And we had a great time on the tour. Big shout out to Sho and to Magical Trip for showing us around in an amazing private park. If you guys are interested in the tour, link is going to be in the description below. Please check it out. This is a set tour right now, but they are going to have customizable all day tours later and check out some of the really fun night drinking tours. And thank you so much. Um, and I had a great day and I’m tired. So, let’s go cross the Scramble Crossing for one last shot. [Music]

Hey friends! I’m super excited to bring you along for a private tour of some of Tokyo’s most popular spots! Even better, we get to ride around in a private car with our own personal tour guide! Thank you to Magical Trip for this opportunity and if you guys want to go on your own tour while in Tokyo make sure to check out their website, they have a wide range of different experiences!

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00:00 – Intro
01:09 – Tsukiji Fish Market
04:47 – Tokyo Tower
07:59 – Wagyu Lunch
11:22 – Akihabara
15:10 – Meiji Jingu and Shibuya